Alan I. Marcus | Academic Influence

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Alan I. Marcus

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#3499

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#4912

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#1292

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Alan I. Marcus's Degrees

PhD History Princeton University
Masters History Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Alan I. Marcus is the author of the history textbook Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam He is also the author of works focusing on the History of Technology, Science, Medicine, Intellectual History, and the History of Agriculture. His most recent work Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875-1915 was published in 2018 by the University of Alabama Press. He was a professor of history at Iowa State University from 1980 to 2005. He started his position as the head of the history department at Mississippi State University in 2005 and is currently in said position. He has received numerous awards and honors throughout his academic career.

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Alan I. Marcus's Published Works

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Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy: Farmers, Agricultural Colleges, and Experiment Stations, 1870-1890 (1987) (57)
Technology in America: A Brief History (1991) (57)
The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry 1830-1910 (1989) (24)
Cancer from Beef: DES, Federal Food Regulation, and Consumer Confidence by Alan Marcus (1996) (21)
Disease prevention in America: from a local to a national outlook, 1880-1910. (1979) (17)
Agricultural Science And The Quest For Legitimacy (1985) (16)
Technology in America (1998) (15)
‘Would you like fries with that, Sir?’ The evolution of management theories and the rise and fall of total quality management within the American federal government (2008) (11)
Plague of Strangers: Social Groups and the Origins of City Services in Cincinnati 1819-1870 (1991) (11)
Bill Clinton in Arkansas: Generational Politics, the Technology of Political Communication and the Permanent Campaign (2010) (9)
Health Care Policy in Contemporary America (2002) (6)
The newest knowledge of nutrition: Wise Burroughs, DES, and modern meat. (1993) (6)
Service as Mandate: How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015 (2015) (5)
Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 (2015) (5)
The Chemical Engineers of Iowa State College (1986) (5)
Technical Knowledge in American Culture: Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1800s (1996) (5)
Physicians Open a Can of Worms: American Nationality and Hookworm in the United States, 1893-1909 (1989) (4)
If All the World Were Mechanics and Farmers: Democracy and the Formative Years of Land-Grant Colleges in America (2015) (4)
Professional Revolution and Reform in the Progressive Era (1979) (4)
The Strange Career of Municipal Health Initiatives (1980) (4)
The Future Is Now: Science And Technology Policy in America Since 1950 (2007) (4)
The New Agricultural College and the New Agricultural History (2013) (3)
Sweets for the Sweet: Saccharin, Knowledge, and the Contemporary Regulatory Nexus (1997) (3)
The Green Revolution in the Global South: Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences (2020) (3)
Science and Medicine in the Old South. (1990) (2)
The City as Social System: The Importance of Ideas (1985) (2)
The Ivory Silo: Farmer-Agricultural College Tensions in the 1870s and 1880s (2016) (1)
Setting the Standard: Fertilizers, State Chemists, and Early National Commercial Regulation, (2016) (1)
The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform by Judith Walzer Leavitt (1983) (1)
Constituents and Constituencies: An Overview of the History of Public Agricultural Research Institutions in America (1987) (1)
Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam (1997) (1)
From State Chemistry to State Science: The Transformation of the Idea of the Agricultural Experiment Station, 1875–1887 (2019) (1)
Systematizing Workers and the Workplace (2018) (0)
Technology as a Social Solution: World War II and the Aftermath (2018) (0)
Historiography of the History of Science in America. (1989) (0)
Expressing the Self: Individualism in an Era of Plenty, from about 1950 to the late 1960s (2018) (0)
Service as Mandate (2015) (0)
Cancer’s Face (2013) (0)
Introduction American Studies and American Science: An Analysis (1989) (0)
CHEMISTRY UNDER THE MORRILL ACT: AGENCY THROUGH SERVICE (1) (2013) (0)
Chapter Twenty-Three. Science and Technology (2007) (0)
Systematizing the Fabric of American Life: The 1870s to the 1920s (2018) (0)
Safeguarding the Public Health: Newark, 1895–1918: Galishoff, Stuart: Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 191 pp., Publication Date: September 1975 (1976) (0)
Science as Service (2015) (0)
Manufacturing America: 1607 to 1800 (2018) (0)
The Medieval Image in the Modern Mind: (2021) (0)
In Memoriam: Richard Lowitt, February 25, 1922 – June 23, 2018: A Historians' Historian (2018) (0)
Technology as a Social Solution: The 1920s to the 1950s (2018) (0)
Petroleum and Public Safety: Risk Management in the Gulf South, 1901–2015 by James B. McSwain (review) (2019) (0)
Private and Public: Technology and Individual Autonomy from the Later 1960s to the 1990s (2018) (0)
Detroit and the Problem of Order, 1830-1880; A Geography of Crime, Riot, and Policing John C. Schneider (1981) (0)
Eloge: Howard P. Segal (1948–2020) (2021) (0)
Mark R. Finlay (1960 - 2013): A Memorial (2014) (0)
Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915 (2018) (0)
Communications and the Power to Communicate (2018) (0)
Public and Private: Technology as a Social Question from the Later 1960s to the 1990s (2018) (0)
American Technology and Globalization in the Twenty-first Century (2018) (0)
Barbara Clow.Negotiating Disease: Power and Cancer Care, 1900–1950. xviii + 238 pp., bibl., index. Montreal: McGill‐Queen’s University Press, 2001. $65 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). (2002) (0)
Experiments, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century (review) (2004) (0)
Book Review:Boussingault: Chemist and Agriculturist F. W. J. McCosh (1985) (0)
Does the History of Science and Technology Have a Future (1989) (0)
Young America and Individual Opportunity: 1800 to the 1830s (2018) (0)
National history through local social evils and the origin of municipal services in Cincinnati. (1981) (0)
A Symposium on the Committee of Scientists (1992) (0)
Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak (review) (2001) (0)
American Nationalism: A People and Common Material Experience, late 1830s to 1870s (2018) (0)
Book Review: "Venerate the Plough": A History of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1785-1985, by Alan I. Marcus (1987) (0)

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Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam